Butter pecan
Butter pecan is a flavor, prominent especially in the southern United States, in ice cream, cakes, and cookies.The flavor is an element of soul food, the cuisine of Black Americans.[1][2] Though it was not a definitive practice in some southern states, particularly along the east coast, countless Black American oral traditions have substantiated the claim.[3][4] Poet Maya Angelou recalled that Black Americans could eat vanilla ice cream only on the 4th of July.Research by culinary historian Michael Twitty states that Edmund Albius, an enslaved Black man, improved the cultivation of the Mexican spice that flavored ice cream on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.